[68024] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Fri Feb 27 17:38:30 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:35:58 +0000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <OFDFDE1094.9857B396-ON80256E47.00395ECA-80256E47.003A6288@radianz.com>
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>>[1] Should VoIP include 911/999 service, and how does one resolve the
>>various geographic location issues associated with this.
I'm glad that got people talking :-)
[snip - one of the many issues; I think you route the call to India and
have someone ask the user where they are, then re-route the voice based
on the answer. But first you need to de-dupe the numbers that are
Emergency in one country and a normal service in another; say 911 was
the weather forecast in Greenland... ]
>Personally I don't think the regulators have a clear
>enough grasp of the technical issues to be prescribing
>solutions for this issue.
Some do. And specifically in the UK they have a joint committee with
industry to get properly to grips with the technology.
--
Roland Perry
